Yeah, me too, I'm generally in favor of having only 1 set in a game with kisses, and a positive one of course. After all, it is a kiss! But if we're talking about making only Ascended Astarion have 2 options, then I'm perfectly reasonable to demand it for all companions as well. Otherwise you get some kind of double standard.
Yes, it will be perceived as an unnecessary moral lesson, a double standard, even unfortunately a judgmental "look someone reacts like this" even if it wasn't tried to be said, because it's an intimate thing that is very deep in people.
I'm generally in favor of having only 1 set in a game with kisses, and a positive one of course. After all, it is a kiss!
The kisses that were on release are the same and happy, I think in patch 4 a new kiss was added to Astarion, but no one thought of any two reactions - to an intimate consent - "let's make kiss?"
